Friday, April 16, 2010

April 16th

We Remember

“We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to know when to cry and sad enough to know we must laugh again.

We are Virginia Tech. We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, but neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant in the killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

We are Virginia Tech. The Hokie Nation embraces our own with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. We are better than we think, not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imagination and the possibility. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all this sadness.

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The ongoing saga of a knitter who spends many non-knitting hours as a nurse. Or is it a nurse who spends non-nursing hours knitting? All hours are spent as the loving wife of The Husband and loving mother of The Son and The Daughter.

The ongoing saga of a knitter who spends many non-knitting hours as a nurse. Or is it a nurse who spends non-nursing hours knitting? All hours are spent as the loving wife of The Husband and loving mother of The Son and The Daughter.

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Thought for the Day (actually, for the Life)

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson